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‘All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face.’

‘Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket?’

‘Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.’

‘Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.’

‘She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.’

‘His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser.’

‘When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era.’

‘It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder.’